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Natalia Junquera

FRANCO DICTATORSHIP

The tiny treasures of Franco’s victims

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 11-12-2020 - 13:11 UTC

A compilation of the personal belongings found among bones and bullets marks the 20th anniversary of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory

DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS

Spain to monitor online fake news and give a ‘political response’ to disinformation campaigns

Miguel González/Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 09-11-2020 - 10:53 UTC

The government will be the arbiter of what constitutes such stories with no representatives from the media or journalist associations involved in the process

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government planning a new state of alarm that will last for many weeks

Pablo Linde/José Marcos/Natalia Junquera/Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 25-10-2020 - 07:59 UTC

The Cabinet is due to meet on Sunday morning to approve the emergency measure, which counts on the backing of the majority of the regions to give them a legal framework for coronavirus restrictions

ANALYSIS

The downfall of Spain’s Juan Carlos I

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 04-08-2020 - 10:24 UTC

Spain's emeritus king has been immersed in scandals since 2012, when he was caught in Botswana on a safari trip to kill elephants

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Spain to release funds for mass grave exhumations

Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 30-07-2020 - 09:29 UTC

Government announces €750,000 in grants, nine years after conservatives slashed the budget for historical memory projects

IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Spain’s economy shrank 34% in the first two weeks of the coronavirus lockdown

Laura Delle Femmine/Natalia Junquera/Bernardo de Miguel|Madrid / Brussels | 18-06-2020 - 10:14 UTC

The government is counting on EU funds to help with the economic recovery, but faces political disputes at home over the use of the money

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government to extend state of alarm until April 26

Carlos E. Cué/Natalia Junquera/Sonia Vizoso|Madrid | 04-04-2020 - 08:30 UTC

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the decision after contacting opposition leaders and scientific experts

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government proposes new national pact for coronavirus recovery effort

Carlos E. Cué/Natalia Junquera/Elsa García de Blas|Madrid | 03-04-2020 - 09:11 UTC

After overnight deaths reach a new peak, the executive is also considering extending the state of alarm until April 26

CORONAVIRUS

Opposition Popular Party backs stricter lockdown, but slams government “improvisation”

Natalia Junquera/Manuel V. Gómez|Madrid | 29-03-2020 - 08:21 UTC

Spain’s biggest labor unions also support the move, but businesses warn of “negative impact” on companies

POLITICS

Galicia, Basque Country to hold early regional elections in April

Natalia Junquera/Elsa García de Blas/José Marcos/El País|Madrid | 11-02-2020 - 11:26 UTC

The vote will take place ahead of polls that have been announced in Catalonia, but that are yet to get an official date

SPANISH POLITICS

In Spain, opposition vows to fight new executive every step of the way

Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 09-01-2020 - 10:19 UTC

The leader of the conservative Popular Party withdraws earlier offers of support, saying that PM Pedro Sánchez has left the country “in the hands of terrorists and coup plotters”

INVESTITURE DEBATE 2020

Pedro Sánchez submits to the closest investiture vote of Spain’s democracy

Natalia Junquera/Elsa García de Blas|Madrid | 07-01-2020 - 12:31 UTC

The caretaker prime minister is set to win a simple majority by a very small margin in Congress today, meaning any last-minute setbacks could lead to fresh elections

Historical memory

How a cigarette pack became a form of anti-Franco resistance

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 23-12-2019 - 11:24 UTC

A new exhibition showcases apparently insignificant objects that were nursed as treasures by the families of the executed and the exiled

Spanish politics

In gridlocked Spain, caretaker PM explores an unlikely Plan B

Elsa García de Blas/Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 16-12-2019 - 10:19 UTC

Pedro Sánchez is meeting with leaders of right-of-center parties to determine their willingness to endorse him if his deal with a Catalan separatist party ultimately fails

November 2019 General Election

Vote count gives extra seat to PP, further complicating Pedro Sánchez’s chances

Natalia Junquera/Javier Casqueiro/José Marcos/Anabel Díez|Madrid | 13-11-2019 - 16:55 UTC

The conservatives have picked up a deputy in the Basque Country, meaning the caretaker PM will need to secure key abstentions or support from another party to retake power

Historical memory

Valley of the Fallen faces uncertain future after Franco’s exhumation

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 25-10-2019 - 10:49 UTC

While the caretaker government wants to turn it into a place of memory and reconciliation, long-term plans are on hold until after the national election of November 10

CATALONIA

Spain’s PM seeks joint response to growing street violence in Catalonia

Carlos E. Cué/Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 16-10-2019 - 08:58 UTC

There were 51 arrests and 125 people were injured following a night of clashes between police and protesters who lit fires and erected barricades in Barcelona, Tarragona, Sabadell and Lleida

Politics

Madrid chief’s talk of “burning churches” upsets Popular Party colleagues

Natalia Junquera/El País/Juan José Mateo|Madrid | 04-10-2019 - 08:46 UTC

Regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso was attacking the plans of caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to exhume ex-dictator Francisco Franco, but the comments are out of step with the conservative group’s strategy for the upcoming election campaign

Historical memory

Valley of the Fallen: The fight to recover remains from “Spain’s largest mass grave”

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 25-09-2019 - 09:28 UTC

Family members of Republicans interred in the controversial site want to exhume their loved ones and give them a dignified burial, but they say the process is taking too long

POLITICS

One hundred days since election, Spain still no closer to forming government

Natalia Junquera/Claudi Pérez|Madrid | 07-08-2019 - 10:19 UTC

Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is working on a new strategy to win the support of the anti-austerity party Unidas Podemos, which refused to back his investiture bid in July

POLITICS

Once foes, two ex-PMs share concern about state of Spanish politics

Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 18-07-2019 - 15:58 UTC

Felipe González and José María Aznar agreed that centrality has been lost in recent years

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

The enduring myths around Spain’s Historical Memory Law

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 01-07-2019 - 06:41 UTC

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, the recollection of what happened in the following decades continues to be at the center of a heated political debate

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Spain’s Supreme Court suspends the planned exhumation of Franco

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 04-06-2019 - 11:40 UTC

The Socialist Party government of Pedro Sánchez has been working on a project to move the remains of the former dictator since last June, but has met the stiff opposition of his family

SPANISH ELECTIONS

Spain’s acting PM and opposition leader agree to open talks on Catalan crisis

Natalia Junquera/Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 09-05-2019 - 16:28 UTC

The move represents a U-turn for Popular Party president Pablo Casado, who garnered a disastrous result at the April 28 election

ELECTIONS IN SPAIN

How a shift to the right prompted the PP’s worst election night in 30 years

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 06-05-2019 - 11:21 UTC

The conservative party’s disastrous showing at the April 28 polls proves, for many insiders, that going after supporters of far-right group Vox was a mistake. Here’s how the debacle unfolded

GENERAL ELECTION 2019

After stinging election defeat, PP chief Pablo Casado does strategy U-turn

Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 01-05-2019 - 09:01 UTC

Despite months of making overtures to far-right party Vox, the conservative leader has now dismissed the group, with a new campaign aimed at reclaiming the center ground

GENERAL ELECTION

Spanish politicians clash over Catalonia in first televised debate

Carlos E. Cué/El País/Natalia Junquera/Daniele Grasso|Madrid | 23-04-2019 - 13:57 UTC

The Monday night event revealed the deep divide between the left-wing and right-wing blocs ahead of the general election on April 28

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